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[OmnipotentGrue]

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Yeah I've got no icons, you wanna fight about it?

[SolarShado]

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Yeah I've got no icons, you wanna fight about it?

's quite nice not having crap covering up you nice wallpaper isn't it?

[hexedmagica]

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I love this wallpaper.

[OmnipotentGrue]

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Yeah I've got no icons, you wanna fight about it?

's quite nice not having crap covering up you nice wallpaper isn't it?

White space is people, too! It deserves as much as the main part of the picture! But yeah, I used to have a bunch of icons and random pictures I was afraid of clicking on to see what they were, so I just got rid of everything. Sure, it takes a little bit longer to open some programs or folders, but it's the price I pay for having a nice, clean desktop.

[Retro]

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Yeah I've got no icons, you wanna fight about it?

's quite nice not having crap covering up you nice wallpaper isn't it?

White space is people, too! It deserves as much as the main part of the picture! But yeah, I used to have a bunch of icons and random pictures I was afraid of clicking on to see what they were, so I just got rid of everything. Sure, it takes a little bit longer to open some programs or folders, but it's the price I pay for having a nice, clean desktop.

Not even shortcuts? I keep a lot of folder shortcuts on my desktop. Not much else, but shortcuts are damn handy, especially to Program Files, etc.

[OmnipotentGrue]

Not even shortcuts. I just pin everything to the start menu.

[EagleV]

Same opinion. Although I have one shortcut to one folder which contains all other shortcuts. It was a pain to change the icon (apparently paint can only save as .ico if it started from an alreday existing .ico) but worth it.

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Also, I love rainmeter.

[SolarShado]

ARISE THREAD!!

Arch Linux ROCKS!

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rocking openbox+tint2+xcompmgr+feh, dmenu (not pictured, but very nice), wicd, pidgin...
imagemagick's import didn't get urxvt at all

i'm really loving the linux synaptics driver: i can emulate some 2-finger gestures (tapping and scrolling) even though my hardware doesn't support multi-touch! <3 i've only had it for a coupe days and i'm already spoiled

for comparison with earlier (these were sitting in my imageshack account)

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Spoiler: omg! twm! (click to show/hide)

[ein]

Spoiler: So I found something that fits my minimalist preferences. No more black screen for me! Yay! (click to show/hide)

[SolarShado]

Spoiler: So I found something that fits my minimalist preferences. No more black screen for me! Yay! (click to show/hide)

interesting...
i see no trace of a taskbar; arch linux? or is that just the wallpaper?
and where's it from?

[ein]

Windows 7.
It's on the right.
Remilia from Touhou.
Touhoumon specifically.

[SolarShado]

ah, i see it now. i can't stand auto-hide... not sure why... maybe bad memories of it borking certain games back in win95

[ein]

Heh.
I'm used to it from when I was using my old Mac.
Except the taskbar is much more useful than the dock.
The only things I keep pinned are cmd.exe, task manager, explorer, control panel, and Chrome.

[Itnetlolor]

I think I'm due for an update.

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I modified the 2nd and 3rd To Do's to have different graphics. 2nd one is a frozen flame sprite (which opens when clicked on) from what could've been a sequel to Chrono Trigger (as a mod), the other I modded from the same rainmeter skin's resources. As for the ship, I snagged it from XWAUpgrade.com and trimmed off the extra markings for a seamless pic. Thank goodness those were PNGs (and reasonably big so I could reduce it cleanly; alternatives are also available with different angles of the same ship). The radial clock I found when looking through Rainmeter Skins. Everything else aside, as usual, sensitive information has been censored for my safety. Oh, and the first To Do I change the color of depending on the total score that is up at the moment. Blue-green-yellow-orange-red-black, of course, is the color progression I use for it.

I like my setup. Takes a moment to load, but it's nice.

EDIT:
Here's the frames of the frozen flame (I used 1 (off) and 3 (on)) (Got rid of the white space):

Source

[SolarShado]

Wow... that's... very busy... (I've taken a serious liking to more minimalist styles lately.)

Cool trick with the ship I would've guessed that it was part of the wallpaper.